Improvement in brush-holders



A. H. TREGO.

Improvement in Brush Holders.

No. 124,865. PatentedMarch19,1872.

WITNESSES.

Unrrnn S'raa'ns ALFRED HOMER TREGO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLT'ANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRUSH-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,865, dated March 19, 1872.

Specification describing an Improved Brush- Holder, invented by ALFRED HOMER Tnneo,

of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania.

The invention relates to lon ghaudled brushes for sweeping and scrubbing; and consists in an improved clamp for readily attaching different brushes, as required, and adjusting the handle as to angle.

The handle is furnished at its lower end with screw-thread or its equivalent, by which itself compresses and secures the clampingjaws, both of which are pivoted adjustably, a follower being interposed, which serves also to adjust the handle by engaging with different notches in one of the jaws. Spurs give the point of the handle an immovable bearing on the block. The metallic parts are separable, and may all be of malleable iron, and

cast of complete form.

Figure l is a side view, partly in section, of the holder applied to a sweeping-brush. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the clamp proper or metallic fixtures detached.

The brushes A, for use with my improved holder need be of no peculiar shape, but the usual handle'socket may be omitted. The handle B, as preferably constructed, is furnishedat its lower end with a deep external thread,

with their enlargements c and the cavity 0 with its notch 0 receive and accommodate a pair of loose jaws,D E, and a crescent-shaped follower, I, the openings 0 permitting the passage of the heads (1 e f of the same. The notch 0 receives and pivots one or the other of the heads at e, the other resting above the same, while the cup-shaped head f of the follower F is engaged by the end I) of the handle B. The jaw D, for the back end of the brush, is made longer than the other, and its back is furnished with notches al to engage with a hook, J, at the corresponding end of the follower F, and it terminates in a pair of hook-arms, 01 by which it has an extended bearing. The back 6 of the short jaw E, for the front edge of the brush, is ridged, and the end f of the follower F notched to correspond, and it terminates in a single hook, c. The handle B being unscrewed, the jaws D and E are released, andthe brush A may be detached and another substituted.

The metallic partsGDEF, as before stated, may be of malleable iron, cast of complete form, and require no fitting or union. The notch 0 for pivoting the jaws D E,permits the adjustment of the handle B as to angle, which is taken up and secured by the follower F; and also increases the scope of adaptation for brushes of difi'erent sizes. I propose multiplying the same; also, if preferred, securing the handle B otherwise than by screw.

What I claim as new herein. is-- 1. The handle B, metallic socket G a, loose jaws D E, and follower F, combined and operating substantiallyas shown and described, for the purpose specified.

2. The notch or notches c lockingnotches al and lip or hook f, in combination with socket 0 o, jaws D E, and follower F, arranged substantially as shown, for adjusting the handle as to angle.

ALFRED HOMER TREGO. Witnesses:

W. K. Snnvocn, D. Nnwmnv FELL. 

